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Privacy & Cookies Policy

www.gijonny.co.uk is owned by the BBC and is subject to the BBC's Terms of Use and Privacy and Cookies Policy.

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

    1. Introduction

This policy covers the BBC's use of personal information that the BBC collects when you use gijonny.co.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies; BBC and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the BBC and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information the BBC will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

    2. Visitor information

During the course of any visit to gijonny.co.uk, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

Nielsen//Netratings and SageMetrics, two independent measurement and research companies, gather non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The BBC uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users. If you wish to reject Nielsen//Netratings' cookie and SageMetrics' cookie, you can use the process set out below in point 7. To Totally Opt-Out of Nielsen//Netratings collecting any data regarding your interaction on gijonny.co.uk, use the Opt-Out in their Privacy and Cookie Policy. To Totally Opt-Out of SageMetrics collecting any data regarding your interaction on bbc.co.uk, use the Opt-Out in their Privacy Statements and Policies.

    3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data that often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user, and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the gijonny.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse gijonny.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for gijonny.co.uk services. For further information on cookies please visit

    4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to gijonny.co.uk we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use that data. We must collect the information fairly - that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to the BBC will only be used within the BBC and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to gijonny.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on gijonny.co.uk, the BBC can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. For safety reasons, however, the BBC may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of gijonny.co.uk. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

    5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information the BBC holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.)

Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, MC3 D1, Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ (E-mail: dpa.officer@bbc.co.uk).

    6. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the G.I. Jonny website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

    7. How to find and control your cookies

If you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Privacy tab
    4. Click on Custom Level
    5. Click on the 'Advanced' button 6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you are using Firefox 2.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Options
    3. Click the Privacy icon

If you are using Firefox 1.0 or 1.5:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Advanced
    4. Cookies

If you are using Opera 7.0:

    1. Choose File, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Privacy

If you are using Netscape 6.0:

    1. Choose Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on Cookies

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Security tab
    4. Click on Custom Level
    3. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you are using Internet Explorer 4.0:

    1. Choose View, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the Advanced tab
    4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you are using Netscape 6.0:

    1. Choose Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on Cookies

If you are using Internet Explorer 3.0:

    1. Choose View, then
    2. Options
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you are using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

    1. Choose Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

8. How do you know which of the sites you have visited use cookies?

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Click the General tab
    4. Click Settings
    5. View Files

If you are using Firefox 2.0:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Options
    3. Click the Privacy icon
    4. Show Cookies

If you are using Firefox 1.0 or 1.5:

    1. Choose Tools, then
    2. Options
    3. Click the Cookies tab
    4. View Cookies

If you are using Opera 8.0 or 9.0:

    1. Choose File, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Privacy
    4. Click on Manage Cookies

If you are using Netscape 6.0:

    1. Choose Edit, then
    2. Preferences
    3. Click on Advanced
    4. Click on Cookies
    5. Click the View Cookies button

If you are using Internet Explorer 4.0:

    1. Choose View, then
    2. Internet Options
    3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
    4. Settings
    5. View Files

If you are using Internet Explorer 3.0:

    1. Choose View, then
    2. Options
    3. Advanced
    4. View Files

If you are using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You will need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

9. How to see your cookie code

Just click on a cookie to open it. You will see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

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